MERN Stack Developer

PHP AI Developer

We are seeking a highly skilled PHP AI Developer with experience in building intelligent web applications, AI-powered automation solutions, and scalable enterprise systems. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in PHP (Laravel), MySQL, JavaScript, REST APIs, AI integrations (OpenAI/Gemini/LLMs), and workflow automation, along with hands-on experience in developing AI-driven products and business applications. This role offers Permanent Work From Home.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable PHP/Laravel applications integrated with AI capabilities.
• Build AI-powered modules such as chatbots, document processing systems, recommendation engines, and workflow automation tools.
• Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, or similar AI services into web applications.
• Develop and optimize REST APIs and third-party integrations.
• Implement AI features including text generation, summarization, classification, semantic search, and conversational interfaces.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and security.
• Collaborate with product, design, and business teams to deliver AI-enabled solutions.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor junior developers.
• Stay updated with emerging AI technologies and recommend innovative improvements.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong expertise in PHP (Laravel, Core PHP).
• Proficiency in MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Experience with AI APIs and LLM integrations (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, etc.).
• Knowledge of Prompt Engineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Vector Databases, and AI Workflows.
• Experience with REST APIs, Webhooks, and third-party integrations.
• Hands-on experience with Git/GitHub, Docker, CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus.
• Minimum 2+ years of software development experience, including AI-powered application development.

Preferred Experience

• Experience developing AI-powered SaaS platforms.
• Knowledge of chatbot development and intelligent automation solutions.
• Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB, or FAISS.
• Exposure to enterprise-scale applications and high-traffic systems.
• Experience in ERP, CRM, EdTech, HRMS, or workflow management platforms with AI enhancements

Job Description – Senior Software Developer

 Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, develop and maintain web applications using the MERN stack.
• Design RESTful APIs (and possibly GraphQL) in Node.js/Express, integrate with front-end in React.
• Build and enhance the front-end UI in React, ensuring performance, responsiveness and maintainability.
• Design MongoDB schemas, indexes and queries for high-traffic/scale scenarios.
• Deploy, operate and optimise cloud infrastructure on AWS: e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS/DynamoDB, VPCs, IAM, autoscaling.
• Ensure high availability, fault-tolerance, and scalability of services in production.
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated testing, monitoring & alerting.
• Troubleshoot and fix performance bottlenecks across the stack (front-end, back-end, database, cloud).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, design, QA, DevOps) to deliver features end-to-end.
• Mentor junior/mid-level developers, conduct code-reviews, impart best practices.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies, propose improvements to architecture and processes.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in full-stack web development using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js).
• Strong front-end skills in React: component architecture, hooks, state management, performance optimisation.
• Solid back-end skills in Node.js/Express: API design, middleware, security, robustness.
• Experience with MongoDB (or equivalent NoSQL) including schema design, query optimisation, indexing.
• Proven experience working with AWS cloud services (compute, storage, database, networking, security, monitoring).
• Experience deploying applications at scale: autoscaling, high availability, disaster recovery.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure‐as‐code (CloudFormation, Terraform or similar), containerisation (Docker) is a plus.
• Good understanding of software engineering best practices: code-quality, testing, documentation, version control (Git).
• Excellent communication skills, self-motivation, ability to work remotely and collaborate across time zones.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
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Our Client is focused on democratizing Insurance through technology. It is a cloud-based platform connecting distributors to the Insurance Ecosystem to sell and manage Insurance programs. They are creating a middleware connecting consumers, traditional insurance institutions, intermediaries, and service partners on a single platform. Basically, give distributors the ability access to the entire Insurance ecosystem via 1 API / 1 platform.

Their goal is simple - Provide a new way to do Insurance, which is secure, easy, and focuses on the consumer while staying compliant with the frameworks laid down by the regulator.

Description

This is a mission-critical role. They are a small, diverse, agile and high-performance, engineering team. They are looking for versatile developers who will:

• Innovate their existing product and work on creating tools that crunch integration times and time to market
• Improve through peer-learning and transmit them to the firm's dev ecosystem.
• Take ownership and get the job done.

They are clear. They need role shapers, not role takers.

Key Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for design, development and delivery our web-based application in an agile manner built on Java Spring Boot, React, My SQL and Mongo DB.
• You will be expected to write code on day-to-day basis while testing it on real world use cases
• You will be an independent owner of your feature on the platform.
• You will be a part of the core software development team and are expected to participate in all development cycles.
• You will be responsible for closure of business requirements end-to-end by working cross-functionally and will be expected to mentor and drive other members of the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer / Technology domain.
• 4-7 years of relevant work experience, preferably in a start-up environment/ building SaaS products.
• Excellent coding skills with ability to deliver in a hyper growth phase.
• Hands on experience in JAVA and practical experience in developing and designing scalable software solutions.
• Excellent Problem-solving skills & understanding of data structures in a complex environment.
• Extensive experience in Spring, Hibernate and SpringBoot
• Experience in building REST Services
• Experience in integrating third party APIs (Payment gateways, SMS gateways, Accounting software APIs, APIs of CRM tools etc.) into web applications
• Experience in working with SQL and no SQL DBs (Preferably Mongo DB)
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker is a plus
• Knowledge of how insurance processes and past experience in working on insurance applications is a plus.

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to produce scalable software solutions. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility.

•  Developing both frontend and backend of application using technologies like Java,   Angular, JavaScript, HTML5.
•  Designing user interactions on web pages.
•  Designing and Developing back end API's and databases.
•  Meeting both technical and customer’s needs.
•  Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
•  Take complete ownership of the project and deliver with good quality.
•  Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

• Relevant experience of 8+ yrs
• Strong communication, organizational skills. Good in Agile, Scrum, Dev-Ops practices.
• Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React and Amber.
• Proficiency in Java, Springboot, Microservices
• Familiarity with database technology such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle and MongoDB.
• Good in writing quality code and Unit Tests. Good knowledge of DevOps practices.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem solving skills

**Work remotely / Work From Home with BigStep Technologies throughout your tenure**

Desired candidates must have 7+ years of total experience in backend development with good expertise in MEAN Stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, Node.js) and JavaScript, along with strong development and coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills.

Roles and Responsibilities :

What You'll Do

• Create the system architecture for any product from scratch as well as drive it for more than one development teams
• Design and deliver solutions that enable fast and efficient deployment of quality code to production
• Document the architectural blueprint and end to end design through flowcharts and diagrams.
• Set coding standards for development teams and ensure all released code is following standards
• Oversee the code review process, performing reviews when necessary
• Establish strong communication channels and relationships with the development teams, supporting them throughout the release cycle
• Continuously evaluate the existing software to identify areas of improvement and ensure architectural integrity as additional features are added.
• Lead DevOps and implement tooling and process improvements when you identify gaps
• Work with various stakeholders and identify the scope of the work, provide high level estimations, create a timeline and come up with the approach and design for the same.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform.
• Coach and mentor the development teams to improve the overall expertise and skills of the team.
• Take care of the development of critical components and POCs for new technologies to be used.
• Deliver high quality deliverables individually/as a team adhering to industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot any errors or issues that arise in the application/infrastructure components quickly and efficiently.

What You Bring

• 7+ years in software development or product engineering
• Proficient in MEAN Stack
• Good experience in backend development with Node.js
• Expertise in developing RESTful APIs
• Have created multi-transactional and highly redundant systems from ideation to production
• Customer-centric mindset
• Expertise in Agile SCRUM best practices
• Expertise in implementing front-end of applications using HTML5, Angular.js
• Proficient in MVC, OOPS concepts, Web Development Concepts, HTML, JSON, REST API development
• Strong coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to break down complex technical concepts into something digestible by non-technical stakeholders